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Las Tolas

Special Learning Opportunities

You can select a special learning opportunity as a theme of your stay in Las Tolas, or very easily visit any of these activities for an afternoon, or a few days, once you arrive.

Organic sustainable community farming

Learn more about medicinal plants

Make cheese

Panela making (seasonal)

Cook typical Ecuadorian cuisine

See the local organic coffee plantation

Milk cows by hand with your family...an experience not to be missed.

Sugar cane is used to make panela, a local sugar, in this fascinating traditional process. The sugar canes are crushed and the resultant liquid then heated in vats before being cooled using the paddle, as shown.